See also my post on my Photos by Friends & Guests #46

EXTERNAL LINKS:
"Seen high over the numbers landing runway 27. Built in 1943 as a Douglas C-53D with serial 42-68747 for the USAAF - United States Army Air Force. Other serials - N101SF with Mr P.C. Duncan, and also N33334 with Northwest Orient wearing FN 334 - delivered in May 1951 and in service until June 1958.
Nice tail colors with the lone tree at Monterey, California."
www.airliners.net/photo/1110399/L  in Pacific Internationale Airlines (1978)
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And 1980 at San Juan (SJU), Puerto Rico: "Seen in basic Nevada Airlines mural livery, this DC-3 served Northwest as NC33334 after WWII, followed by Pan American-Southern and various corporate owners.
Last FAA database record 1982, but was reported stored at Doctors Mesa, CO"
www.airliners.net/photo/2008791/L

Cassidy Cristello wrote an update on FB's Aviation Wrecks and relics (Aug.2024):
A DREAM CAME TRUE!
'A moderate two and a half hour drive from the desert city of Tucson lies something unknown to even some of the most experienced warbird and aviation enthusiasts, a 1953 Fairchild C-119L Flying Boxcar.
Our story begins in the late 80s, when a local Arizonan has won the bid from a government auction for a C-119 Flying Boxcar cargo aircraft. Mr. Howard Jenkins of Pima, Arizona plans to convert the war horse into a restaurant.
Jenkins has won the bid for $8,000 (~$20,000 in 2024 dollars, or around 1/18 the price for a brand new Cessna 172) and seemingly over time forgets about his new airplane. After leaving his new acquisition in the boneyard for a few years, the Air Force decided to force him to take it off the property in early 1990. And so a crane was put into place and the aircraft was cut up into pieces, loaded onto flatbeds, and transported and reassembled at Howard’s Flying J Ranch Airpark in the remote town of Pima, a short 30 minute drive from the nearby Safford Regional Airport.
Plans for his restaurant soon became apparent that they would likely take a lot of effort and more importantly money to get done.
So for 30 years after its original trip, it sat collecting dust in the rural Arizona desert. And the restaurant never gets beyond the idea stage...

My part of the story begins late last year, likely around thanksgiving time when I happened to stumble upon a website article titled "Mystery C-119 in Arizona" written by Ruud Leeuw from his trip to southern AZ in 2017.
It details the history of the airplane and shares some of his photos of the aircraft. I was hooked!
Life often gets in the way though, and my small expedition to this aircraft would have to wait. However, this past week I would have a nearly completely free weekend and I decided this was my chance to see something that I longed to check out.
I have a soft spot for old prop transports, notably the C-97, C-123, and relative here, the C-119.

So early Saturday morning began the 2 and a half hour drive to Flying J Ranch.
Pulling up to the gate is a lack of no trespassing signs or fences- a good first impression☺
Driving onto the airfield you’re greeted with two Great Danes, who don’t pose much of anything to the average traveler.
As you drive up a hill in the distance is one fat airplane just staring at you, begging to be looked at.
Parking just in front of the nose is where I began my photographic episode. After around a few minutes of poking around an older man rides up on a blue mountain bike. I go to talk with the man to realize he is the owner, Howard Jenkins!
A homely smile is there to greet me followed by the words of "so what are you doing up here?"
I tell him I came from Tucson for the flying boxcar, and explain more about what I’m here to do and what draws me to this plane in particular.
Howard seemed to have been through this rodeo a few times before throughout the years, and as I was nearly sure I would be escorted off the property..., he asks me: "So would you like to check out the inside? There’s a bit of trash and stuff in there but nothing too bad". Of course I would!
Never before have I been able to interact with an airplane of this significance and size before, so I replied with a simple "sure!" Next thing I know I’m opening what feels and looks like a vault door for doomsday to whatever is inside the 119.
Looking around is exactly what he told me there was, simply just boxes of old stuff; papers, chairs, etc. I’ve explored aircraft like this before and have found out that critters often hide in dark corners or in other areas, but notably that was absent in the case of 8074.
I take a quick glance at the cockpit before concluding "I’ll come around later to get a better look around". Howard greets me again and excitedly shows me his 1946 Swift Taildragger in a small hangar across the runway. We talk some more and he shows me some photos of the 1990 move of the 119, I show him photos of some prop aircraft similar to this one before us, and we build up a small bond over this airplane he has in his yard.
He also tells me he plans to attempt and convert it into an AirBnB sometime in the future....
He soon leaves to a desert biking trail as I’m left to roam around the amazing aircraft he’s left in my sight.
I take some more photos, videos, and just take in the sight of something so rare and special to me before deciding to head out back west. I looked in the mirrors one last time to see the boxcar fading into the distance, but I’m sure I’ll return again.
I want to thank everyone who commented on my previous post here regarding info on this aircraft in particular and to Ruud for giving me some tips on how everything is set up there.
And if you made it to the end, thanks for reading!
Here’s a small portion of my photos I took yesterday of ex CA ANG C-119L 53-8074. Enjoy!'

Fairchild C-119L Flying Boxcar, 53-8074 at the Flying J Ranch. Copyright Cassidy Cristello, Aug.2024.

Some info from my (RL) database:
(N34AH?) Reported 24Apr88 at New Tamiami,FL: all silver colourscheme, no titles. On 06Feb89 at Miami Int'l.
N34AH, Fullair Acft Svcs (ex/N4458H).
N34AH Dross Metals Inc, AMARC 1997 list, 'AN 6C0027'. ex/Lakehurst.
Seen Oct.'96 in Dross Metal's yard (Tucson) as 39070.
Reg'd Feb.2000 for Aero-Tech Sales of Florida Inc.
On 25Oct99 at salvage yard near AMARC (AMARG), being rebuilt from R4D-5 c/n 10020.
Reg'd 29Apr05 to Thomas Keith Graziano (Benson,AZ), CofA issued 2005.
Bought by Transnorthern,AK. In July05 confirmed to me by Trans Northern Aviation, N34AH still at Benson.
R18Jul05 for Classic Air Transport, Las Vegas,NV.
During July 2006 reported as "has now received a new Douglas-style coat of paint including the Classic Air Transport logo on the forward fuselage".
N34AH has been here at Benson since August 2005.

In July 2009 I read a thread that casted doubt on N34AH being ex/ BuNo. 39070, as its history was thought to be N34AH->FAC 1632 -> N34AH while 39070 was sighted at D.Monthan during this time.

The 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group (AMARG), often called The Boneyard, is a United States Air Force aircraft and missile storage and maintenance facility in Tucson, Arizona, located on Davis-Monthan Air Force Base.
AMARG was previously Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center, AMARC, the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposition Center, MASDC, and was established after World War II as the 3040th Aircraft Storage Group.

AMARG takes care of nearly 4,000 aircraft, which makes it the largest aircraft storage and preservation facility in the world. An Air Force Materiel Command unit, the group is under the command of the Ogden Air Logistics Complex at Hill Air Force Base, Utah. AMARG was originally meant to store excess Department of Defense and Coast Guard aircraft, but has in recent years been designated the sole repository of out-of-service aircraft from all branches of the US government.

AMARG was established in 1946 as the 4105th Army Air Force Base Unit to house B-29 and C-47 aircraft. Davis-Monthan Air Force Base was chosen because of Tucson's low humidity, infrequent rainfall, alkaline soil and high altitude of 2,550 feet (780 m), reducing rust and corrosion.[3][4] The hard soil makes it possible to move aircraft around without having to pave the storage areas.

In 1948, after the Air Force's creation as a separate service, the unit was renamed the 3040th Aircraft Storage Depot.
In 1965, the depot was renamed the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposition Center (MASDC), and tasked with processing aircraft for all the US armed forces (not just the Air Force).
The U.S. Navy had operated its own boneyard at Naval Air Station Litchfield Park at Goodyear, Arizona, for Navy, Marine and Coast Guard aircraft. In February 1965, some 500 (!) aircraft were moved from Litchfield Park to Davis-Monthan AFB. And NAS Litchfield Park was finally closed in 1968.

In the 1980s, the center began processing ICBMs for dismantling or reuse in satellite launches, and was renamed the Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC) to reflect the expanded focus on all aerospace assets.

en.wikipedia.org:_309th_Aerospace_Maintenance_and_Regeneration_Group

N192G (at one time have been N1920G, as one can see the '0' has been erased)
North American T-28A Trojan (former military serial 49-1567) N192G is not assigned anymore, it was dereg'd (as expired) on 28Aug2013)

When consulting Joe Baugher's USAF Serials I found this batch 49-1491/1756 North American T-28A Trojan included specifics on 49-1567 (c/n 159-79):
Assigned to 3575th Pilot Training Group, Vance AFB, OK
Accident 16Jul51 landing at Vance AFB, OK.  Assigned to 3300th Pilot Training Group, Graham AFB, FL [Dec55]
To the Arizona Aircraft Storage Branch [AASB], Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ. Reclaimed 02Apr58.
BoS from USAF 31Jul59
Registered N1920G; cancelled 5Oct72
Registered N192G 19May08; expired 31Mar13, cancelled 28Aug13
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The North American Aviation T-28 Trojan is a piston-engined military trainer aircraft used by the United States Air Force and United States Navy beginning in the 1950s.
Besides its use as a trainer, the T-28 was successfully employed as a counter-insurgency aircraft, primarily during the Vietnam War.
It has continued in civilian use as an aerobatics and Warbird performer.
en.wikipedia.org:_North_American_T-28_Trojan